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COTTON CHOPPER,

No. 255,643. Patented Mar. 28.18.82.

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UNITED STATES PATENT :OFFICE.

DREURY W. MASSEE, OF MARSHALLSVILLE, GEORGIA.

COTTON-CHOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,643, dated March 28, 1882.

Application filed January 3, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, DREURY W. MASSEE, of Marshallsville, in the county ofMacon, and

, in the State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton- Ohoppers; and Ido hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in an improved cotton-chopper, the novel features of which will be fully understood from the following description, when taken in connection with the annexed drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improved chopper complete; Fig. 2, a bottom View of my new chop nng-blade and its stiffening'bar; Fig. 3, a 'erticalsection through the blade at its point of attachment to the standard; and Fig. 4. is a perspective view ofa blade designed for blocking out turnips and other vegetables.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A designates a beam; B B, the handles thereof; 0, a front guide-wheel, which also serves as a fulcrum in running the chopper; and D is a standard, which is provided with an eye through its lower end, and which is rigidly braced and secured to the beam A.

E designates the chopper; F, a strong inflexible bar; and G, diagonal braces, which extend from the front part of the beam, and are attached by means of their rear hooked ends, a, to the chopping-blade E and bar F. The chopper is formed of a thin steel blade, which is a parallelogram, and which may be made of any suitable length and width.

The drawings Figs. 1 and 2 show a blade notched at b b for working two rows of plants;

but I may adapt the blade for more rows. The ends of this blade are bent backward], so as to form guard-wings c 0, which prevent the plants from being cutor otherwise injured, and which also stiffen the thin blade vertically. The inclined edges of the notches b b are also bent backward to form guard-wings d d, which protect the" young plants in the rows, and also stiffen the bottom edges of the blade E. The bar F is applied to the upper edge at the back of the blade E for the purpose of preventing this blade from bending longitudinally, also for the purpose of staying the end wings, 00. The bar and the blade E are secured centrally to the lower end of the standard D by means ota bolt, 6. (Shown in Fig. 3.) The braces G are hooked through the blade and bar near the extremities thereof. It will thus be seen that the bolt 6 and the hooks to secure the blade and bar together, and also secure these parts to the standard and beam of the implement. By removing the bolt 0 the bar and blade can be detached from the hooks a of the braces, and a blade notched on its lower edge, as shown by Fig. 4, substituted.

What 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Thecombinalion, with the beam Aand standard D,ofa single blade,E, notched at b,the wings d d, the wings c 0, formed on said blade, and the, stiffening-bar F, secured to said blade at the back thereof by means of a bolt, 0, and the eyes a a on the braces Gr G, substantially as described. a

In testimony whereofI affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 14th day of December, 1881.

DREURY W. MASSEE.

Witnesses:

"D. B. FREDERICK,

J. W. JOHNSON. 

